Item 1: PH on Ordinance Amending Metro Plan (Delta Sand and Gravel)

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Mr. Carmichael opened the public hearing for the Lane County Planning Commission. Ms. Colbath opened the public hearing for the Eugene Planning Commission. Lane County Planning Staff Stephanie Schulz provided the staff report. She noted that the written report contained 'answers to questions asked by the commissions during the previous public hearing. She said that some questions were.more appropriately answered by the applicant and said those questions had been noted in the staff report. Steve Cornacchia, 180 East 11 th Avenue, spoke as the applicant's representative. He noted that LCDC had modified OAR 660-023-0180 and the application did not conform exactly to that modified wording. He said there was no substantive change or difference in the actual criteria that the applicant was required to address. He said LCDC had added paragraph 4 and a paragraph 6 but stressed that neither of which pertained to the application since both referred to a Post Acknowledgement Plan Amendment process that dealt with a piece of property that had less than two million tons of aggregate. He remarked that the applicant had 9 million tons of aggregate and therefore came under paragraph five of the OAR. Mr. Corna~chia said the commissions had been provided with a memorandum from a City of Eugene transportation analyst that stated that the applicant had not addressed some provisions in Eugene Code regarding transportation. He reminded the commissions that the administrative rule was very. specific about the criteria to be addressed by the applicant and to be considered by the commissions. He said if the City of Eugene and Lane County had not adopted regulations consistent with the GoalS rule then only the provisions of the GoalS Rule were subject to the proceeding. He noted that neither Lane County or the City of Eugene had adopted regulations consistent with the GoalS Rule and stated that the commissions had to operate under OAR 660-023-0180. He reiterated that the applicant had stated that the increase in its supply of aggregate would in noway affect the number of trips to and from the quarry. He also noted that the Lane County Transportation Division had determined that there was no traffic impact and a traffic impact analysis was not required. Regarding the Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority permit, Mr. Cornacchia said the permit limited the production of aggregate at the facility to 2 million tons per year as well as a daily output requirement. He said the current LRAP A discharge permit remained valid until LRAP A issued a new permit. He said LRAP A was currently going through the process of issuing a new permit. Mr. Cornacchia distributed/submitted additional written materials from David Standlee who had done the noise analysis for the applicant. He said the materials discussed the legitimacy of the calibration of the measuring instruments since a question had been raised at the last hearing. He added that there were some new houses that had been built in the Silver Meadows and Mr. Standlee had recommended that the Zone 4 protection area be expanded to move the DEQ compliance line at the edge of Delta's property. Mr. Cornacchia said.the applicant was amending the request of a variance for the setback where there had been a request to excavate in the setback to within 100 feet of properties and 50 feet on resource land. He said the request for the variance had been withdrawn for the entire length of the set back on the west side that abutted residential areas. Mr. Cornacchia distributed a letter from. himself to the commissions sununarizing the reports provided by experts testifying for the applicant. He said all of the reports that evening were responses to the testimony raised by the opposition during the previous hearing. MINUTES-Lane County Planning Commission Eugene Planning Commission January 17, .2006 2